Crato, Portugal
Pousada Mosteiro Crato
A 15th-century Crato monastery converted into a Pousada de Portugal property and selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025, this former convent sits in the Alentejo town of Crato amid the plains of the Alto Alentejo. The architecture alone makes the case: vaulted stone corridors, a cloister garden, and centuries of monastic construction layered into a working hotel. It occupies a bracket of heritage hospitality that few Portuguese properties can match on purely architectural terms.
